Critic fired for reviewing pirated WOLVERINE
4 comments April 6th, 2009
Last week, someone snagged a copy of the upcoming X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE movie (due in theaters next month) and posted it on the Web. To say that 2oth Century Fox, the studio behind WOLVERINE, was upset is a bit of an understatement.
How upset were they? This upset: When Roger Friedman, who works for Fox 411, reviewed a copy of the movie he’d seen (and believe me, it was a very positive review), they canned him. Rave or not, the studio apparently (and, if you ask me, rightly) thought Friedman was promoting piracy just by reviewing the movie, and gave him the boot.
 I can certainly see why the studio is upset, and figure they were probably right in giving Friedman the boot, but I also think they couldn’t have bought better publicity for X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE if they’d tried. A week or so ago, only the die-hard fans were aware of this movie. Now any medium-level movie fan is. Pirated or not, it’s going to have a huge opening weekend.
